Building on and updating some of the issues addressed in Starting to Teach Latin, Steven Hunt provides a guide for novice and more experienced teachers of Latin in schools and colleges, who work with adapted and original Latin prose texts from beginners’ to advanced levels. It draws extensively on up-to-date theories of second language development and on multiple examples of the practices of real teachers and students. Hunt starts with a detailed look at deductive, inductive and active teaching methods, which support teachers in making the best choices for their students’ needs and for their own personal preferences, but goes on to organise the book around the principles of listening, reading, speaking and writing Latin. It is designed to be informative, experimental and occasionally provocative. The book closes with two chapters of particular contemporary interest: ‘Access, Diversity and Inclusion’ investigates how the subject community is meeting the challenge of teaching Latin more equitably in today’s schools; and ‘The Future’ offers some thoughts on lessons that have been learnt from the experiences of online teaching practices during the Covid-19 lockdowns.
Practical examples, extensive references and a companion website at www.stevenhuntclassics.com are included. Teachers of Latin will find this book an invaluable tool inside and outside of the classroom.
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Steven Hunt is course leader of the PGCE in classics at Cambridge, UK, having previously taught classics for twenty years in comprehensive schools. He currently maintains a teacher training website for classics, with funding from the DCSF. Steve contributes to CPD events at national and regional level, and has undertaken consultancy work for such organisati
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